‘At the heart of the fascist appeal is fear and hatred of outsiders, combined with a sense of superiority over them as ...

Massacres, often ignored or forgotten by the outside world but not by their victims, are one of the great driving forces of history. The mass killings on Syria’s Mediterranean coast send a message to ...

Patrick Cockburn is an award-winning Independent columnist who specialises in analysis of Iraq, Syria and wars in the Middle East. He has been with The Independent since 1990. In 2014 he forecast ...